A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.
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January 19, 2009 
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore" nevermore?Today is the 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birthday (thanks to Amy H. for calling my attention to it). If you don't know who that is, you probably didn't get this post, either, and should remedy the situation immediately.
And as always, thanks to Melissa of Wild Cakes, who makes "eating crow" tasty, if not exactly appetizing. ;)
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Reader Comments (78)
I think you mean 200th?
That cake looks very appropriate and delicious. I'd like to see Fall of the House of Usher myself. :)
Gee, that's certainly appetizing.
That is unspeakably amazing.
Edgar AllAN Poe, actually. I'm teaching his stuff this week! :)
What a fun way to "eat crow". Much better than eating my hat. Or having to eat my words.
I laughed out loud at this one. I like it, it would be a good hallowe'en cake.
wvotd mente: Is the Italian word for mind.
Appropriate since the Baltimore Ravens lost last night...
Love it! Those feet-up Canary cakes get a little old after awhile. Give me the bloody goth take on a dead bird cake any day.
{Licking lips}
The weird antisocial one over at http://casahice.blogspot.com
200th anniversary (b in 1809)
I love this!! I don't think I could actually eat the raven...but it's gruesomely awesome! Edgar Allen Poe is my favorite!!!
I don't care what anniversary it is, my reaction to that cake (?) would be 'never'. It casts a gloom over my day just looking at the pic.
Ha! word verification - sonres. In sonres tones the raven quoth..
FYI it is the 200th anniversary!
-jeremy j.
That is just plain nasty.
Do crow cakes carry West Nile?
wv: perfere. I perfere Annabelle Lee
I love, love, love this cake! It so makes me want to have a Poe party now. I can think of all kinds of possibilities. Maybe a pit of dip with a pendulum to dip with. And for sure this cake for desert.
I think that's one of the most horrific-looking cakes I've seen yet! :) Please tell me it wasn't red velvet inside!!
It's the 200th.
Now that I could NOT dig a fork into.
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com)
I vote for a "well-executed, but entirely unappetizing" tag.
After seeing this post, I decided to go look up Poe on wikipedia. Reading about him again took me back to middle school, where I first read some of his works. I'm originally from Baltimore, so our English class even took a field trip to visit his former house there. If I had known what a goth was back then (late 80s), I'm sure I would have been one. Interesting to contemplate how I might have turned out.
is it wrong to love this cake quite as much as I do???
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
(psst -- it was 200 years ago today...)
Why is a raven like a writing desk?
...
Poe wrote on both!
Eeuuww. There was a little kid who used to come into the shop where I worked before my kids came along, and he would bring ravens' feet from his Dad who kept shooting them at their vacation home. :< He always tried to sneak up and stick me with the yucky dead claws. Little rascal. They were gross.....
Tabitha, you are hilarious! Seriously, what kind of frosting is that?
LMAO okay I have to admit, I would do this IN red velvet...for my mother.
It's awesome.
ok... was not expecting THAT this morning...
gotta go stop choking now
As a devastated Baltimore Ravens fan, to come here and see this this morning was just the twist of the knife.
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! The blood, scares me... is ie Jello or what is it???? Well, whatever it is, it scares the crap outta me.
Entire poem can be found http://www.heise.de/ix/raven/Literature/Lore/TheRaven.html" REL="nofollow">here.
The Raven
[First published in 1845]
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.'
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.
"Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
Suddenly, out of nowhere, this like, huge black bird comes flying, flying at my chamber door, and promptly killed himself when he flew right into the solid wood door.
Stupid bird, no more shall he say Nevermore."
~Amy B
I.
Love.
It.
"Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)" Trust me, its 200 years, check out http://edgarallanpoe200.com/
Another example of bizarre concept done well.
I love this cake! And can we have the whole cast and crew of Who killed Cock Robin? (I know that's not by Poe, but still.)
This reminds me of aeons ago when I was in Jr High and we had an all school assembly--two guys in black suits who performed several of the Poe short stories. I especially remember The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado. Really spooky, and they did it without costumes, props, or lights. Just good story telling technique.
WV: voundir. I voundir what they were thinking to make that cake.
That really "takes the cake" as we would say in norwegian... I'm laughing so loud that my stomach hurts!
LOL... yes Tabitha, it was indeed red velvet inside!
This was a tiny little cake done because 2 people had words over hockey and one had to "eat crow". It was a little crudely done as it was very tiny and a long time ago!
The icing is fondant with a TON of black food colour, and the feet were royal icing.
Perhaps the funniest part is that my father is a game warden, and when I told him about the cake I had to do, he actually brought me a dead crow in a ziplock bag to use as a model! (no.. it did not come into the kitchen with me LOL)
Melissa
I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT THAT CAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
That would be a great Halloween cake! Love it!
I feel horrible for loving this cake as much as I do.
This would have been perfect for the Steeler party yesterday!
well that's certainly more entertaining than the cake Duff made for the birthday party yesterday...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27896711@N02/3210202986/
200th birthday.
OMG, that is priceless. I'm going to have to give another one of your posts a special link.
hahahahahaha...I loved seeing this on the day after the Pittsburgh Steelers slaughtered the Ravens on the football field. This would have been an awesome cake to have at a football party yesterday!
I think today would have been his 200th b-day, not 300th b-day.
Wow, that is extremely disturbing!
Seeing as Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favourite authours of all time I approve of this cake!
Ah, I always say... A good bird is a dead bird. That cake could let me taste that theory!
GUH. BLARGH. That's going much too far. Look, I'm a goth and I wouldn't eat it!!!
word: denticri
Eating cake wrecks makes your denti cri.
Jackie, it's never too late to come to the dark side. *extends black-nailed hand* (FYI, I'm 40 years old and still goth.)
We have cake. Deep dark chocolate cake. You know you want it.